Congratulations Dr. Les Vertesi on receiving CAEP's Honourary Life Membership Award! Your CEPA family is very proud of you.

The Honourary Life Membership Award recognizes a CAEP member who has made outstanding contributions and dedicated service to emergency medicine in Canada.

Dr. Vertesi's continued contributions, including his work developing, championing and promoting the creation of the Advanced Life Support Paramedic training in British Columbia, have had a substantial impact in emergency medicine at the local, national and international level.

He is one of CAEP's founding members, joining his colleagues in 1978 to create the voice of EM in Canada.

We are very pleased to announce Crackcast as our second annual winner of the Herb Parkin Award. Learners today don't learn the same way as they did in the past. Instead, they do a lot of their learning through podcasts. For example, Crackcast has taken lessons from Rosen's and turned them into podcasts that can be downloaded and listened to as often as a learner likes. This helps the learner review and understand the 'core' concepts of emergency medicine.

On April 26th during our RCH EM Grand Rounds session, Dr. Jess Paul (R4), our Resident Chief, made the big reveal and presented on behalf of the group of residents, Dr. Justin Ahn with this year's Clinical Teacher of the Year Award.

Nominations also included:

Dr. Doug Brown

Dr. Aaron Davison

Dr. Joseph Ip

Dr. Nathan Lim

The Clinical Teacher of the Year Award is given to someone who has made an outstanding contribution to the emergency medicine residency program or the betterment of our EM residents. Important qualities include leadership skills, effective teaching, contagious enthusiasm, innovation and role modelling.

We are very pleased to announce Dr. Anthony Bryson (R2) as our first annual winner of the Herb Parkin Award. Anthony designed and taught the curriculum for pre-hospital ultrasound for BC Ambulance Critical Care Paramedics. Currently the paramedics are being assessed for image acquisition, with the goal to have them use their skills to further advance pre-hospital care in British Columbia.

On April 27th during the RCH EM Grand Rounds session Dr. Nicolle Holm (R4) and Dr. Wesley Jang (R4) played one of the best games of 20 Questions that we have heard in quite a while. Their questions had the audience guessing and almost crying with laughter. They definitely made sure we were all listening. Then finally, they made the big reveal and presented on behalf of the group of residents,Dr. Tom Green with this year's Clinical Teacher of the Year Award.

The Clinical Teacher of the Year Award is given to someone who has made an outstanding contribution to the emergency medicine residency program or the betterment of our EM residents. Important qualities include leadership skills, effective teaching, contagious enthusiasm, innovation and role modelling.Here is the award presentation complete with the 20 questions describing what a great role model and inspiration Dr. Green is and what makes him the type of physician we, one day hope to become.

We are delighted to inform everyone that... Dr. Barry Miller has won the 2016 Clinical Faculty Award for Career Excellence in Clinical Teaching

Dr. Miller has been a member of the Royal Columbian Physician group since 1981, teaching for UBC for 34 years. The Emergency Medicine group at Royal Columbian and Eagle Ridge Hospitals has a long and proud teaching history, and Dr. Miller has always been a core member of the team. Over his career, he has literally taught thousands of medical students and residents, so back in early January of 2016 our group decided to nominate Dr. Miller for this award because we sincerely believed that he had contributed a tremendous amount to furthering the education of British Columbia’s doctors, and he has certainly been a superb influence on and example to its current educators. The nomination process was definitely a trip down memory lane and we enjoyed the memories so much that we actually turned it into a specially bound booklet and presented it to Dr. Miller during his retirement party with room for signatures and well wishes at the back.

On April 22nd during the RCH EM Grand Rounds session Dr. David Migneault (R4), on behalf of the group of residents, presented Dr. Doug Brown with this year's Clinical Teacher of the Year Award.

The Clinical Teacher of the Year Award is given to someone who has made an outstanding contribution to the emergency medicine residency program or the betterment of our EM residents. Important qualities include leadership skills, effective teaching, contagious enthusiasm, innovation and role modelling. Dr. Brown is well known to go above and beyond to teach and support the residents. He frequently sacrifices his personal time to provide extra help and guidance to trainees. Dr. Brown is a real inspiration within our community and shines at the international level. His enthusiasm and creative leadership are deeply appreciated. During tough times of residency, Dr. Brown has a unique way to ensure his residents are learning and loving Emergency Medicine. Respected for his bedside manners and the quality of his interactions with the different players of the emergency department, he is a real role model of professionalism. Dr. Brown is the type of physician we, one day, hope to become and today, it is time to acknowledge him as a key player and thank him for devoting his life to emergency medicine and particularly to us, residents.